Until now, it was possible for one animal to be re-breeded as many times as you wanted. From now on, this is unfortunately not possible anymore, because pets have a limited number of re-breedings.
The number is random, like it's max level (for tamed creatures), and it's the same random number for the babies.
10% chance for 3 breedings
15% chance for 2 breedings
70% chance for 1 breeding
5% chance for no breedings
i belive it's a little shock for someone who breeds alot, but this is a good long-term solution for the shard. If you can rebreed high-level creatures for many times, we will have maxed dragons selling in bulk very soon - which is good for the veteran breeders, but gives new players nothing to do with breeding. also, to avoid having maxed hellhounds or ostards beeing sold for 20k a piece in one year from now.
Update - breeding modicifation
Update - breeding modicifation
+Colibri, Administrator of UO Excelsior Shard
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Don't know what the purpose of your life is? Well then make something up!
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How does this effect failed breeding?
I can deal with the limited number of breedings, but what is the purpose of no breeding at all? Even if only a 5% chance, even that one chance makes breeding almost not worth doing on any sort of serious level. Especially considering if you're trying to breed lower end pets that will take 12 generations to get the stats even remotely close to max.
Oh, also, since there's a limited chance of breeding now, will you remove the max level caps? Because this effectively kills all chances of breeding down a generation.
I can deal with the limited number of breedings, but what is the purpose of no breeding at all? Even if only a 5% chance, even that one chance makes breeding almost not worth doing on any sort of serious level. Especially considering if you're trying to breed lower end pets that will take 12 generations to get the stats even remotely close to max.
Oh, also, since there's a limited chance of breeding now, will you remove the max level caps? Because this effectively kills all chances of breeding down a generation.